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Title: Portland mayor not supporting rioters after a year of doing so
Post by: marshwiggle on May 01, 2021, 01:54:47 PM
Better late than never, I suppose.

After Nearly a Year of Unrest, Portland Leaders Pursue a Crackdown (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/us/portland-protests-mayor-ted-wheeler.html)
Title: Re: Portland mayor not supporting rioters after a year of doing so
Post by: mahagonny on May 03, 2021, 04:43:37 AM
I'll take a stab at this then.
I don't subscribe to the NYT (and couldn't stand to given my dislike of their editorial page and their use of loaded terms in supposedly neutral news) but here's a link to something free. https://www.opb.org/article/2021/04/30/fbi-portland-police-bureau-investigating-death-threat-against-mayor/

The rioters are right about one thing, but not in the way they are thinking. The mayor needs to resign. It's too late for him to be credible in his job. He seems to never have understood in the first place what the job entails, keeping peace on the streets.

And then there's Gret Gutfeld's field day.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88ZyUgrbo7c
Title: Re: Portland mayor not supporting rioters after a year of doing so
Post by: mahagonny on May 03, 2021, 11:47:53 AM
Quote from: mahagonny on May 03, 2021, 04:43:37 AM
I'll take a stab at this then.
I don't subscribe to the NYT (and couldn't stand to given my dislike of their editorial page and their use of loaded terms in supposedly neutral news*) but here's a link to something free. https://www.opb.org/article/2021/04/30/fbi-portland-police-bureau-investigating-death-threat-against-mayor/

The rioters are right about one thing, but not in the way they are thinking. The mayor needs to resign. It's too late for him to be credible in his job. He seems to never have understood in the first place what the job entails, keeping peace on the streets.

And then there's Gret Gutfeld's field day.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88ZyUgrbo7c

*and outright false claims.

https://news.yahoo.com/news-outlets-including-washington-post-105518175.html